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THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)

Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe drives a buddy from LA to the Tihana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend's wife. After Marlowe's release, following the reported suicide in Mexico of his friend, a beautiful woman hires him to locate her alcoholic and mercurial husband. Then, a hoodlum and his muscle visit to tell Marlowe that he owes $350,000, mob money the dead friend took to Mexico. Marlowe tails the hood, who goes to the house of hte woman with the temperamental husband. As Marlowe pulls these threads together, his values emerge from beneath the cavalier wisecracking.

Elliott Gould (Philip Marlowe), Nina Van Pallandt (Eileen Wade), Sterling Hayden (Roger Wade), Mark Rydell (Marty Augustine), Henry Gibson (Dr. Verringer), David Arkin (Harry), David Carradine (Inmate), Arnold Schwarzenegger (One of Augustine's Hoods).

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Robert Altman.

WRITER: Raymond Chandler.

CRITICAL COMMENT

PRODUCER: Jerry Bick.

"Strange, almost spoofy updating of Raymond Chandler's novel." -- Leonard Maltin

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Robert Eggenweiler.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Elliott Kastner.

ORIGINAL MUSIC: John Williams.

DISTRIBUTOR: MGM/UA

SCAVENGER HUNT (1976)

Old Mr. Parker has made millions inventing and selling games. At the beginning of the movie, he dies and his relatives father for the reading of the will. However, Old Mr. Parker is a game player to the last, and his will stipulates a Scavenger Hunt to determine which relative will get the inheritance. The winner of the scavenger hunt gets all the money, the rest get nothing. The realtives break up into five teams and try to win the game.

Richard Benjamin (Stuart Selsome), James Coco (Henri), Scatman Crothers (Sam), Ruth Gordon (Arvilla Drolls), Cloris Leachman (Mildred Carruthers), Cleavon Little (Jackson), Roddy McDowall (Jenkins), Robert Morley (Charles Bernstein), Richard Mulligan (Marvin Drummitz), Tony Randall (Henry Motley), Dick Benedict (Jeff Stevens), Willie Aames (Kenny Stevens), Stephanie Faracy (Babbette), Stephen Furst (Merle), Richard Masur (Georgie Carruthers), Meat Loaf (Scum), Pat McCormick (Carnival Barker), Vincent Price (Milton Parker), Avery Schreiber (Zoo Keeper), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Lars), Liz Torres (Lady Zero), Stuart Pankin (Duane), Hal Landon Jr. (Cornfield),

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

FACTS

DIRECTOR: Michael Schultz.

RELEASE DATE: December 21st, 1979 (USA)

WRITERS: Henry Harper and Steven Vail.

PRODUCER: Melvin Simon.

CRITICAL COMMENT

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Billy Goldenberg.

"Hard to believe a comedy with so much talent could misfire so greatly, but it does." -- Leonard Maltin

DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox